The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 12, 2025

It did well enough over long enough to get a sequel, but I'm still writing about the old original one. I'm getting over a flu and can't work up the energy to write a proper article with paragraphs and stuff, so I'll experiment with a quicker, looser format. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy. Final Fantasy X-inspired class system. A cool, fun game.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 15, 2024

After that, everyone is the boss of their own part of work, whether it’s design, art, writing, coding etc. People who just want to live stories in a fantasy world but are turned off by violence and combat. Everybody in the studio is welcome to pitch ideas and we chose the projects we all want to work on, together.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. The fairytale theme was inspired by Disney and Pixar movies. “I I am a huge fan of city builders, especially the ones that lean a bit more towards the medieval”, says Nielsen.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

To name just a few, these include Fortnite (Battle Royale), Top War (4X Strategy), Puzzles & Dragons (Match3), and Tower of Fantasy (MMORPG). Theyve already begun to sprout several direct competitors too, such as Wuthering Waves and Tower of Fantasy, both of which are performing admirably in their own right.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 29, 2018

Why writing rules is different than other kinds of writing How to structure a rule book Making rule books clear and concise Your player’s first experience and your rule book Dealing with rule book skimmers Parting advice. Brandon: Both in consulting and in creating books, you’ve done quite a bit of writing.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 11, 2020

In this article, I’m not going to write about how to specifically word a pitch. If people like sci-fi or fantasy, most publishers will try to make sci-fi games, fantasy games, or both. ” I write about this in length in People are Weird, Markets are Weirder…Especially with Board Games.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch. Dragon Age Origins, Final Fantasy 15, Duke Nukem Forever) tends to be a meandering project like this. Yes, most games that dont pass muster get cancelled, and publishers cancel them as early as they can. Any game with a really long development cycle (e.g.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 20, 2020

If people like sci-fi and fantasy, you give them sci-fi and fantasy. Even something as ideal for Kickstarter as a $20 fantasy worker placement small box game needs something to catch people’s eyes. Good products are made for audiences using hard data to figure out what people like. Kickstarter is a giant open data set.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 12, 2023

Why do fantasy authors write series consisting of many books? Whether it is a book series or a movie franchise, the most successful creators are those who build worlds that engender loyalty and inspire investment from their audience. Because you stick with it! Even if book 3 sucks you still keep buying because you are invested.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. The fairytale theme was inspired by Disney and Pixar movies. “I I am a huge fan of city builders, especially the ones that lean a bit more towards the medieval”, says Nielsen.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Geneforge Saga is a fantasy-science fiction hybrid with a wildly open-ended world, story, and game system. Final Fantasy VII. I’m sure the Final Fantasy VII remaster is a decent game. The Final Fantasy VII remake, on the other hand, seems largely forgotten. The original Final Fantasy games are.

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The Bottom Feeder

APRIL 9, 2024

The only risk is that the players of your fantasy stabby game might actually feel powerful for a while. Sometimes, when I'm writing a game, I start acting like a hardass and tacking on difficulty. A little sacrifice to the small gods of power fantasy. It gets me off my figurative butt and keeps me writing.

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Cocos

MARCH 29, 2023

Many developers say that they can just become a UI Assembler and let GPT-4 write shaders for them. Why I write a mind map first? With ChatGPT’s help, it took me about 50 minutes to finish writing all of the game logic, and everything was working properly. I am both skeptical and anxious about this.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. The fairytale theme was inspired by Disney and Pixar movies. “I I am a huge fan of city builders, especially the ones that lean a bit more towards the medieval”, says Nielsen.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. One day, Dave Kosak, a guy that helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. The fairytale theme was inspired by Disney and Pixar movies. “I Once we had that idea, the rest came really naturally, and it’s one of my favorite features!”

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2018

After a year of documenting the Highways & Byways development process through the Dev Diary, this is not the post I wanted to write. I would have much preferred to write a post about how Highways & Byways funded on day 1. Writing this post was like performing an exorcism. Need help on your board game?

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The Bottom Feeder

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We write super-retro, super-low-budget games that don't look great. The answer is: Writing. I'm not a great fantasy writer. If I was, I'd be writing books nobody buys because nobody buys books anymore. So, although nobody asked, I would like to make six observations about video game writing. Never have. Never will.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Little is known about this game at the time that I’m writing it. Let’s say you’re going for a hardcore fantasy audience. I’m talking about the sort of people who read medieval fantasy novels such as Lord of the Rings and who play games that resemble the style of that famous series of novels.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

I really hope this game is not delayed yet again, but as of this writing it’s set to release on January 24th. Honorable Mentions: Final Fantasy XVI: This is the first big game directed from the beginning by Yoshi-P, or Naoki Yoshida, who I think is easily one of the best game directors of all time.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

It may start as a feature to ‘walk through’ the design, where that documentation is immediately obsolete as I write it. That is where the focus shifted somewhat from the technical aspects of game development to the creative aspects of story, writing, characters etc. Also, I chat with other game devs occasionally.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2023

In this game, you sit at a table and communally make up a fantasy story about murdering people and taking their stuff. I am biologically incapable of writing about D&D without including examples of actual, published, back-in-the-day art. Subscribe now We make really nifty indie fantasy RPGs with out own eccentric rulesets.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

While I mostly write stuff of general interest, there are times when I have to address posts more directly to my fans. Avernum 4: Greed and Glory will be an epic, indie, turn-based fantasy role-playing adventure for Windows, Mac, and iPad. We’re back to Avernum, and we’ve got a ton of new ideas. This is one of those times.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Great art, great music, good writing. FINAL FANTASY XVI – After playing a bunch more Kingdomheartslikes and getting more used to that, I’ve gotta say, this is a very well made Kingdomheartslike. I was going to write “too long”, but there is no correct length for an RPG. Bad Pacing.

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 23, 2023

Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com My current project is finishing up the writing of my next book on RPG design. One thing I didn’t think about when I first started writing was just how much the genre’s cues and qualifiers have proliferated out to everything … The post Why Did Everything Become an RPG?

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Here are the basic steps in creating a video game analysis: Determine Your Objective Why are you writing a video game critical analysis? It’s a question that only you can answer, and it will impact how you write the critique. It will make it easier for you to find the right voice when writing your analysis.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

At the time of writing, there are five special emotes in the game: Punch, Slide, Hug, and Banana. The game is published by Netease and, at the time of writing, is only available in China, but it has quickly become one of the most popular games in the country.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

It involves a mix of searching, managing, and writing good requirements. This article is the sixteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. One of the trickiest parts of self-publishing a board game can be finding good artists. Because it can be difficult to do right, I’ve brought in Sean Fallon of Smunchy Games.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2022

Situation Number Two I write computer fantasy role-playing games. I write humor and video games to make people happier, and I'm not a sociopath. I don’t write to hurt people. And I'm still writing games with spiders in them. I Feel Dumb Writing This Of course, I'm not saying anything smart or unique here.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 27, 2023

This dungeon crawl fantasy multiplayer game has been entertaining a lot of gamers. Try to run this fantasy multiplayer game in compatibility mode. Feel free to write in the comment box. Is the Dark and Darker DirectX error bugging you all the time? In this article, you will learn why it happens and how to fix this issue.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

EA is also fluent in effective franchising: management was eager to report a recent cross-over event between faltering Apex Legends and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth that delivered “ two of [its] highest net bookings days over the fiscal year. The writing is on the wall for others.

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Yobob Games

JANUARY 18, 2023

That’s one interesting aspect that a trailer can showcase, especially the potential marriage candidates and the fantasy that the developers want this dating scene to happen in. A trailer is such a great marketing tool if done right, because it can make a journalist raise an eyebrow and write a blog about your game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators! We had a great time, both on the event grounds and at our own gatherings, and made sure to recount our full experience in a retrospective blog post see you this year? Enjoy co-op gaming and procedurally generated worlds in Unrailed 2.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

When this issue appears, you will see the following message: Joining failed: You’re already connected Whether you encounter this issue or not, it’s better to know the troubleshooting methods to have the best experience with this fantasy RPG. Feel free to write in the comment box below. Also, consider re-installing the game.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This model can generate code from natural language, translate code between programming languages, write unit tests, and assist in debugging. The bounding boxes highlight entities in its completion: “is a fantasy landscape with a tree and a temple by the lake.” It also generated bounding box coordinates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Bring your computer and work on fixing engine issues or writing documentation under the guidance of core Godot devs. He splits his work time between writing code himself, and helping other contributors make good changes. He loves sci-fi and fantasy - both movies, books and games - and works on ΔV - Rings of Saturn with Godot 3.1.

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